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Dispense vs Extricate - What's the difference?

dispense | extricate |

As verbs the difference between dispense and extricate

is that dispense is to issue, distribute, or put out while extricate is to free, disengage, loosen, or untangle.

As a noun dispense

is cost, expenditure.

dispense

English

Verb

  • To issue, distribute, or put out.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company.
  • * 1955 , William Golding, The Inheritors , Faber and Faber 2005, p.40:
    • The smoky spray seemed to trap whatever light there was and to dispense it subtly.
  • To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
    • to dispense justice
  • * Dryden
    • While you dispense the laws, and guide the state.
  • To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.
    • The pharmacist dispensed my tablets.
    An optician can dispense spectacles.
  • To eliminate or do without; used intransitively with with .
    • I wish he would dispense with the pleasantries and get to the point.
  • (obsolete) To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.
  • * , II.34:
    • After his victories, he often gave them the reines to all licenciousnesse, for a while dispencing them from all rules of military discipline.
  • * Macaulay
    • It was resolved that all members of the House who held commissions, should be dispensed from parliamentary attendance.
  • * Johnson
    • He appeared to think himself born to be supported by others, and dispensed from all necessity of providing for himself.
  • (obsolete) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.
  • * Spenser
    • One loving hour / For many years of sorrow can dispense .
  • * Gower
    • His sin was dispensed / With gold, whereof it was compensed.

    Derived terms

    * dispensary * dispenser

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Cost, expenditure.
  • (obsolete) The act of dispensing, dispensation.
  • * , II.xii:
    • what euer in this worldly state / Is sweet, and pleasing vnto liuing sense, / Or that may dayntiest fantasie aggrate, / Was poured forth with plentifull dispence [...].

    Related terms

    * dispend * dispensable * dispensation * dispensative * dispensatory

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    extricate

    English

    Verb

    (extricat)
  • To free, disengage, loosen, or untangle.
    • I finally managed to extricate myself from the tight jacket.
    The firemen had to use the jaws of life to extricate Monica from the car wreck.
  • (rare) To free from intricacies or perplexity
  • * 1662: Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)
    • Your argumentation ... is invelloped with certain intricacies, that are not easie to be extricated .

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